Reminder: Call for papers ICHL workshop "Etymology and Reconstruction in the Languages of Australia and the Pacific"

Wed Jan 5 21:58:51 UTC 2011

Dear HistList,

could you send out the reminder pasted in below please? Thanks a lot,

best,

Rob

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Robert Mailhammer

Assistant Professor

Department of English

Arizona State University

P.O. Box 870302

Tempe, AZ 85287-0302

Phone: +1 480 727-9131

Fax: +1 480-965-3451

E-Mail: Robert.Mailhammer at asu.edu <mailto:Robert.Mailhammer at asu.edu> 

https://webapp4.asu.edu/directory/person/1638174
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Reminder: Call for Papers: 

Etymology and Reconstruction in the Languages of Australia and the
Pacific

Session at ICHL 20, Osaka, Japan, 25-30 July 2011

Organisers:

Robert Mailhammer (Arizona State University)

Harold Koch (The Australian National University)

Research in the history in the languages of Australia and the Pacific
has been on the rise in recent years also as a result of increasingly
reliable databases. In particular, for Australian languages it has
become clear that the tools and methods of historical linguistics, in
particular the comparative method, are far from useless, and that in
fact great advances have been made in reconstructing and subgrouping
Australian languages earlier (see e.g. Bowern and Koch 2004 and Evans
2003 for a critical discussion). And the history of Austronesian and
Oceanic languages has made giant steps forward in etymological research
(see especially Ross, Pawley and Osmond 1998-). The comparative study of
the Papuan languages has also begun in earnest in recent years (Pawley
2005a, 2005b). The result of this research has also cast more light on
the cultural and linguistic prehistory of the languages of Australia of
the Pacific (see e.g. Mailhammer forthc.a). At the same time, the
paucity of data and the gigantic time depth (e.g. in the case of
Australian languages, see Mailhammer forthc.b) has continued to pose
challenges for research.

This conference session would like to invite papers addressing issues in
etymology and reconstruction in the languages of Australia and the
Pacific. Among the questions to be investigated could be the following:

-        classical etymological research, including toponyms (see e.g.
Hercus & Koch 2009 on Aboriginal place names in Australia) 

-        in what way etymology can elucidate cultural history

-        etymology/reconstruction and its particular significance to
issues of subgrouping and Urheimat (cf. e.g. Anthony 1995 on the
Urheimat of Proto-Indo-European based on etymologies of wheeled
vehicles)

-        what the reconstruction of key elements can reveal about
proto-phonology, -morphology, or -semantics

References

Anthony, David W. 1995. Horse, wagon & chariot: Indo-European languages
and archaeology. Antiquity, 69, 554-565.

Bowern, Claire, and Koch, Harold eds. 2004. Australian languages:
classification and the comparative method. Current Issues in Linguistic
Theory 249. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Evans, Nicholas ed. 2003. The non-Pama-Nyungan languages of northern
Australia: comparative studies of the continent's most linguistically
complex region. Pacific Linguistics 552. Canberra: Australian National
University.

Hercus, Luise and Koch, Harold eds. 2009. Aboriginal placenames: naming
and re-naming the Australian landscape. Aboriginal history monograph 19.
Canberra: ANU E-Press.

Pawley, Andrew. 2005. Papuan languages. In The encyclopedia of language
and linguistics, ed. Keith Brown, 162-171. Oxford: Elsevier.

Pawley, Andrew. 2005. The Trans New Guinea family. In The encyclopedia
of language and linguistics, ed. Keith Brown, 17-22. Oxford: Elsevier.

Mailhammer, Robert. ed. forthc. a Sprung from a common source? Studies
on lexical and structural etymology. Research in language change.
Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.

Mailhammer, Robert. forthc. b. Diversity vs. uniformity: Europe before
the arrival of the Indo-European languages: a comparison with
prehistoric Australia. In: Linguistic Roots of Europe, ed. Robert
Mailhammer and Theo Vennemann. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press.

Ross, Malcolm, Pawley, Andrew and Osmond, Meredith. 1998-. The Lexicon
of Proto Oceanic. 3 vols, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics/ANU E-press

Abstracts of no more than 500 words (WORD, pdf) to be submitted to ICHL
directly INDICATING THAT THE ARE INTENDED FOR THIS WORKSHOP (see
http://www.ichl2011.com/call_for_papers.html#papers
<http://www.ichl2011.com/call_for_papers.html#papers> ).

Deadline: 15 January 2011

Please contact the organisers for more information:

Robert.Mailhammer at asu.edu

Harold.Koch at anu.edu.au

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